List of the best Jane Darwell movies: The Grapes of Wrath(1940), On the Sunny Side(1942), The Red Stallion(1947), The Devil and Daniel Webster(1941), All Through the Night(1942), The Lemon Drop Kid(1951), Paddy O'Day(1935), Affair With a Stranger(1953), The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe(1942), Life Begins at 40(1935), The Bigamist(1953), The Singing Marine(1937) ... ...
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1940
129 Minutes
Ma Joad
Henry Fonda Jane Darwell John Carradine Charley Grapewin Dorris Bowdon Russell Simpson O.Z. Whitehead John Qualen Eddie Quillan Zeffie Tilbury Frank Sully
ex-convict sharecropper priest uncle grandfather grandmother bleak disheartening emotional oklahoma california family historical events american dream farming poverty labor strike pursuit escape quest
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
6.1/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1942
69 Minutes
Roddy McDowall Jane Darwell Freddie Mercer Stanley Clements Katharine Alexander Don Douglas Ann E. Todd Jill Esmond Leon Tyler Fred Walburn
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Don, the Andrews' 11-year-old son, eagerly accepts the English boy, and is happy ... See full summary »
6.0/10
Adventure
USA
1947
81 Minutes
Mrs. Aggie Curtis
Ted Donaldson Jane Darwell Robert Paige Noreen Nash Ray Collins Guy Kibbee Willie Best Robert Bice Pierre Watkin Bill Cartledge
grandmother grandson horse ranch hand horse owner horse trainer emotional uplifting tender winsome horse auction horse track ranch stable family home debt horse racing training financial troubles family
A mare dies while foaling the Red Stallion. He is reared by a boy and is entered in a big race - something like the Kentucky Derby.
7.6/10
Fantasy
USA
1941
107 Minutes
Ma Stone
Edward Arnold Walter Huston James Craig Jane Darwell Simone Simon Gene Lockhart John Qualen Frank Conlan Lindy Wade George Cleveland Dawn O'Day
farmer senator devil wife assistant neighbor crafty dark uneasy new hampshire farm town greed corruption debt farming promises friendship temptation pursuit
A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer who makes a pact with Satan for economic success enlists Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.
7.1/10
Drama
USA
1942
107 Minutes
Mrs. Donahue
Humphrey Bogart Conrad Veidt Kaaren Verne Jane Darwell Frank McHugh Peter Lorre Judith Anderson William Demarest Jackie Gleason Phil Silvers Wallace Ford
spy gambler nazi singer partner thrilling charming new york city murder espionage nazism gambling mystery adventure 1940s
Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.
7.1/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1951
91 Minutes
Nellie Thursday
Bob Hope Marilyn Maxwell Lloyd Nolan Jane Darwell Andrea King Fred Clark Jay C. Flippen William Frawley Harry Bellaver Sid Melton Ben Welden
A New York City swindler has until Christmas to come up with the $10,000 he owes a gangster, prompting him to go into scamming overdrive.
6.1/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1935
73 Minutes
Dora
Jane Withers Rita Hayworth Pinky Tomlin Jane Darwell Michael Visaroff Vera Lewis Louise Carter Russell Simpson Francis Ford Pat O'Malley Robert Dudley
Withers is an immigrant who learns on arrival in the U.S. that her mother is dead. Friends help her survive as an entertainer, and success is a good argument against the immigration ... See full summary »
5.8/10
Romance
USA
1953
89 Minutes
Ma Stanton
Jean Simmons Victor Mature Monica Lewis Jane Darwell Dabbs Greer Olive Carey Mary Jo Tarola Wally Vernon
playwright husband wife actress baby melodramatic emotional new york city broadway theater marital problems romance estrangement broadway seduction temptation love 1950s
When a TV gossip columnist wrongly announces that the marriage between now successful playwright William Blakeley and his wife Carolyn is breaking up, New York friends variously reminisce ... See full summary »
5.8/10
Biography
USA
1942
67 Minutes
Mrs. Mariah Clemm
Shepperd Strudwick Linda Darnell Virginia Gilmore Jane Darwell Mary Howard Frank Conroy Harry Morgan Walter Kingsford Morris Ankrum
Edgar Allan Poe led an unhappy childhood, broken only by the unceasing devotion of his foster mother, Mrs. Frances Allan, whose loving ministrations gave him courage to carry out his desire... See full summary »
6.9/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
85 Minutes
Ida Harris
Will Rogers Rochelle Hudson Richard Cromwell George Barbier Jane Darwell Slim Summerville Sterling Holloway Thomas Beck Roger Imhof Charles Sellon John Bradford
In small-town America the easy-going publisher of the local paper finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the... See full summary »
6.8/10
Drama
USA
1953
80 Minutes
Mrs. Connelley
Edmond O'Brien Joan Fontaine Ida Lupino Edmund Gwenn Jane Darwell Kenneth Tobey John Maxwell Peggy Maley Mack Williams James Todd James Young
bigamist wife waitress son investigator business partner melodramatic emotional san francisco los angeles family home hotel courtroom office bigamy marriage deception adoption double life forbidden love
A man secretly married to two women feels the pressure of his deceit.
5.8/10
Musical, Romance
USA
1937
105 Minutes
Ma Marine
Dick Powell Doris Weston Lee Dixon Hugh Herbert Jane Darwell Allen Jenkins
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest,... See full summary »
5.8/10
Drama
USA
1954
78 Minutes
Landlady
Angela Lansbury Keith Andes Douglas Dumbrille Claudia Barrett Jane Darwell Gavin Gordon Charles Maxwell William Henry Kathleen Mulqueen Dan Sturkie Jeane Wood
An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.
5.6/10
Drama
USA
1939
65 Minutes
Sophie
Frieda Inescort Otto Kruger Adrienne Ames Don Douglas Jane Darwell J.M. Kerrigan Ann E. Todd Leonard Carey Sarah Padden Ferris Taylor Willard Parker
A theater producer and his protege star fall in love and decide to wed. In route to their nuptials, tragedy strikes and the would-be groom ends up bound to a wheelchair. Nine years later, the wife tries to adopt a little girl.
Romance
1936
90 Minutes
Aunt Ri Hyar
Loretta Young Don Ameche Kent Taylor Pauline Frederick Jane Darwell Katherine DeMille Victor Kilian John Carradine J. Carrol Naish Pedro de Cordoba
A chief's son (Don Ameche) falls in love with a Spanish rancher's part-Indian daughter (Loretta Young).
7.1/10
Western
USA
1950
86 Minutes
Sister Ledeyard
Ben Johnson Joanne Dru Ward Bond Harry Carey Jr. Charles Kemper Jane Darwell Alan Mowbray Ruth Clifford Russell Simpson Kathleen O'Malley James Arness
mormon church elder horse trader wagon master daughter outlaw tense thrilling amusing utah desert wagon train journey survival mormonism water conservation fugitives religious persecution adventure quest
Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.
6.7/10
Drama
USA
1951
87 Minutes
Mack
Sterling Hayden Viveca Lindfors Thomas Mitchell Ludwig Donath H.B. Warner Jane Darwell John Berkes Peggy Webber Charles Evans Marion Martin Everett Glass
A minister embittered by his wife's suicide turns away from God. He ends up among the bums of skid row before he finds meaning again through the love of a missionary's blind daughter.
6.6/10
Drama
USA
1933
75 Minutes
Mrs. Lind
Gary Cooper Fay Wray Neil Hamilton Frances Fuller Roscoe Karns Jane Darwell Sam Hardy Harry Schultz Jimmy Burtis A.S. "Pop" Byron Jack Clifford
dentist wife friend sweetheart husband amusing brash melodramatic small town dentist's office park office prison small-town life jealousy marriage elopement unrequited love the past rivalry
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
6.6/10
Comedy, Romance, Drama
USA
1932
72 Minutes
Mrs. Brock
Cary Grant Nancy Carroll Randolph Scott Edward Woods William Collier Jane Darwell Rita La Roy Oscar Apfel Jessie Arnold Grady Sutton
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
Crime, Drama
1956
87 Minutes
Matron Jamieson
Richard Denning Joan Taylor Adele Jergens Helen Gilbert Lance Fuller Jane Darwell Raymond Hatton Phyllis Coates Diana Darrin Mae Marsh Laurie Mitchell
An inmate is persuaded to take part in a breakout by cellmates anxious to cash in on loot they believe she has hidden.
7.1/10
Western
USA
1948
106 Minutes
Miss Florie
John Wayne Pedro Armendáriz Harry Carey Jr. Ward Bond Mildred Natwick Charles Halton Jane Darwell Mae Marsh Guy Kibbee Dorothy Ford Ben Johnson
bank robber cattle rustler sheriff mother baby intense passionate rousing desert bank small town arizona redemption morality daunting task robbery american west transformation pursuit 19th century
Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization.
7.1/10
Musical
USA
1936
72 Minutes
Woodward
Shirley Temple Alice Faye Jack Haley Gloria Stuart Michael Whalen Sara Haden Jane Darwell Claude Gillingwater Paul Stanton Henry Armetta Charles Coleman
young girl entertainer businessman producer man wife amusing tender city mansion apartment street car radio station father/daughter relationship grief music family city life growing up
The daughter of a wealthy businessman becomes lost in the city while traveling to a new school, and is taken in by a pair of down-on-their-luck performers.
6.9/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Miss "Sailor" Robets
Loretta Young John Boles Dorothy Wilson Muriel Kirkland Astrid Allwyn Frank Conroy Jane Darwell Frank Melton Walter Johnson Sara Haden Joyce Compton
The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in ... See full summary »
6.5/10
Adventure
USA
1931
80 Minutes
Widow Douglas
Jackie Coogan Mitzi Green Junior Durkin Eugene Pallette Jackie Searle Clarence Muse Jane Darwell
Runaway Huck Finn rafts down the Mississippi with his friends.
6.1/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1951
82 Minutes
Mrs. Belden
Red Skelton Sally Forrest Macdonald Carey Monica Lewis William Demarest Raymond Walburn Jane Darwell Lillian Bronson Herb Anderson Paul Harvey
inventor girlfriend pretty woman rival amusing lighthearted indiana small town inventions cars competition romance song and dance rivalry quest discovery love 1890s
Joe, inventor in an American Small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his "crazy invention", only his girl ... See full summary »
Romance
1945
106 Minutes
Mrs. Patterson
Anna Neagle Dean Jagger Rex Harrison Robert Morley Nancy Price Irene Vanbrugh Jane Darwell Elliot Arluck
army officer love interest soldier american man british man amusing lighthearted london united kingdom war love rivalry patriotism love rivalry 1940s
An Army sergeant (Dean Jagger) falls in love with a British major's (Rex Harrison) titled fiancee (Anna Neagle) in World War II London.
7.0/10
Romance
USA
1937
78 Minutes
Mrs. Flaherty
Tyrone Power Loretta Young Don Ameche Slim Summerville Dudley Digges Walter Catlett George Sanders Jane Darwell Stepin Fetchit Pauline Moore Elisha Cook Jr.
reporter heiress count editor tabloid reporter fiancé madcap playful emotional winsome new york city airport city hall journalism scandal fame deception unlikely romance tabloid journalism love
A financier's daughter spars with a newspaper reporter: he by writing about her, she by announcing their engagement.
6.8/10
Drama
USA
1936
80 Minutes
Mrs. Meecham
Robert Taylor Loretta Young Patsy Kelly Basil Rathbone Joe E. Lewis Marjorie Gateson Paul Harvey Jane Darwell Paul Stanton John Miljan Monroe Owsley
A maid secretly marries the son of her wealthy boss.
6.6/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1938
70 Minutes
Miss Hutchins
Shirley Temple George Murphy Jimmy Durante Phyllis Brooks Edna May Oliver George Barbier Edward Ellis Jane Darwell El Brendel Donald Meek Patricia Wilder
orphan nephew band leader uncle landlady daughter winsome spectacular heartwarming new york city hotel stage courtroom broadway theater orphanage orphans musical performance rags to riches communal living family
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
6.5/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1944
91 Minutes
Minister's Wife
Jean Arthur Lee Bowman Charles Coburn Edgar Buchanan Charley Grapewin Phil Brown Harry Davenport Jane Darwell Grant Mitchell Frank Jenks Frank Orth
husband wife judge father bellhop friend charming heartwarming emotional san francisco courtroom coffee shop hotel reconciliation divorce marriage courtship second chance commitment love
To rekindle their love, a divorce judge orders a couple whose marriage is on the rocks to re-enact their four-day breakneck courtship.
6.4/10
Comedy
USA
1938
75 Minutes
Mrs. Kilian
Loretta Young Joel McCrea David Niven Stuart Erwin Marjorie Weaver Pauline Moore Binnie Barnes Jane Darwell Leonid Kinskey Spencer Charters Franklin Pangborn
woman sister wealthy man rancher impostor bartender lighthearted amusing playful kansas santa barbara, calif. club hotel ranch fortune hunters sister relationship impersonation inheritance marriage romance
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her... See full summary »
6.3/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1953
80 Minutes
Mrs. Eva Spatch
Loretta Young John Forsythe Frank McHugh Edgar Buchanan Palmer Lee Harvey Grant Jimmy Conlin Jane Darwell Gladys George Regis Toomey Willard Waterman
pregnant wife husband reporter real estate agent farmer neighbor witty amusing new york city california small town newsroom moving culture clash newspapers small business small-town life publicity stunts love quest
A New York couple takes over a small town newspaper.
5.4/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1938
83 Minutes
Mrs. Waldron
Jean Hersholt Claire Trevor Cesar Romero Slim Summerville Henry Wilcoxon Inez Courtney John Qualen Jane Darwell Pauline Moore Andrew Tombes David Torrence
reporter rival editor doctor best friend child unrestrained cheeky church newsroom radio station canada jail new york city journalism competition radio deception lawsuit publicity
At age four-and-a-half the Dionne quintuplets in their third movie - singing, dancing, playing with puppies, being charming.
Drama, Gay & Lesbian
1950
96 Minutes
Isolation Matron
Eleanor Parker Agnes Moorehead Hope Emerson Ellen Corby Betty Garde Jan Sterling Lee Patrick Jane Darwell Gertrude Michael Joan Miller Marjorie Crossland
robber warden matron prisoner mother dark brutal fiery melodramatic prison cell infirmary prison life murder pregnancy illegitimate child mother/child relationship sadism fall metamorphosis
An innocent (Eleanor Parker) lands in a women's prison with crude inmates and a big matron called Evelyn (Hope Emerson).
Mystery & Thriller
1933
60 Minutes
Mrs. Marble
Stuart Erwin Dorothy Wilson Warner Oland Dudley Digges Gertrude Hoffman Oscar Apfel Frank Reicher Jane Darwell
A detective (Stuart Erwin) and a fortuneteller (Dorothy Wilson) meet a doctor (Warner Oland) from Vienna looking for loot hidden in a mansion.
6.9/10
Drama
USA
1939
104 Minutes
Aunt Phoebe
Myrna Loy Tyrone Power George Brent Brenda Joyce Nigel Bruce Maria Ouspenskaya Joseph Schildkraut Mary Nash Jane Darwell Marjorie Rambeau Henry Travers
doctor woman artist lord daughter wife emotional sad india palace hospital love triangle natural disasters hedonism plagues affair helping others love rise transformation
In India, a married British aristocrat is reunited with an old flame, but she truly has her sights set on a handsome surgeon.
6.6/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1944
86 Minutes
Mrs. Helen Dobson
Anne Baxter John Hodiak Charles Winninger Anne Revere Connie Marshall Chill Wills Robert Bailey Bobby Driscoll Jane Darwell Billy Cummings
sister brother grandfather soldier suitor orphan airy patriotic charming florida small town house market life during wartime war effort love family patriotism world war ii love
A poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan something special for the soldier they've invited to Sunday dinner. They don't realize that their request to invite ... See full summary »
6.6/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1950
104 Minutes
Mrs. Murphy
June Haver Gordon MacRae Debbie Reynolds James Barton S.Z. Sakall Gene Nelson Sean McClory Marcia Mae Jones Jane Darwell Irene Seidner Oscar O'Shea
Patricia O'Grady is the daughter of Irish Vaudeville performer, Rosie O'Grady, and is being raised along with her sisters by her father who believes the Vaudeville life contributed to his ... See full summary »
7.8/10
Western
USA
1946
97 Minutes
Kate Nelson
Henry Fonda Linda Darnell Victor Mature Walter Brennan Cathy Downs Tim Holt Ward Bond Alan Mowbray John Ireland Jane Darwell
sheriff cowboy barber schoolteacher gambler love interest charming gutsy engaging o.k. corral wild west tombstone, ariz. barbershop saloon justice wyatt earp doc holiday cattle underdog revenge
The Earps battle the Clantons at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
7.5/10
Drama
USA
1956
84 Minutes
Mrs. Rogers
Barbara Stanwyck Fred MacMurray Joan Bennett Pat Crowley William Reynolds Gigi Perreau John Gentry Myrna Hansen Judy Nugent Jane Darwell Paul Smith
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.
6.6/10
Fantasy, Drama
USA
1915
60 Minutes
Courtenay Foote Elisabeth Risdon Charles Rock Myrtle Stedman Margaret Edwards Cyril Raymond Herbert Standing Douglas Munro Adele Farrington Dixie Carr Jane Darwell
monk pastor minister congregation members queen profound powerful church waterfront forest religion morality hypocrisy nudity murder society fall discovery wretched excess unknown era
The parallel stories of a modern preacher and a medieval monk, Gabriel the Ascetic, who is killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Truth, which is also represented by a ghostly naked girl who flits throughout the film.
6.4/10
Adventure
USA
1930
86 Minutes
Jackie Coogan Junior Durkin Mitzi Green Lucien Littlefield Tully Marshall Clara Blandick Mary Jane Irving Ethel Wales Jackie Searle Dick Winslow Jane Darwell
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be ... See full summary »
5.7/10
Comedy
USA
1950
79 Minutes
Emlyn Williams Eve Arden Howard da Silva Ruth Warrick Vanessa Brown Shepperd Strudwick Robert Karnes Billie Burke Louise Erickson Jonathan Hale Jane Darwell
dead person poker player friend wife husband lover cheeky spirited witty heaven house bedroom small town infidelity afterlife secret relationships marital problems sex revenge
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly... See full summary »
6.6/10
Musical
USA
1955
112 Minutes
Jane Powell Tony Martin Debbie Reynolds Walter Pidgeon Vic Damone Gene Raymond Ann Miller Russ Tamblyn J. Carrol Naish Kay Armen Richard Anderson
Sailor Danny Xavier Smith and two other gobs try to save his sister Susan's virtue. She wants to get a role in the show "Hit the Deck". After wrecking the producers hotel suite, they land ... See full summary »
7.8/10
Musical, Kids & Family
USA
1964
140 Minutes
Julie Andrews Dick Van Dyke Glynis Johns David Tomlinson Ed Wynn Hermione Baddeley Karen Dotrice Matthew Garber Arthur Treacher Reginald Owen Reta Shaw
nanny son daughter father mother musician amusing cheery engaging playful england london park household childhood magic family parenthood adventure discovery
In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
7.5/10
Romance
USA
1933
90 Minutes
Fredric March Gary Cooper Miriam Hopkins Edward Everett Horton Franklin Pangborn Isabel Jewell Wyndham Standing Harry Dunkinson Helena Phillips Evans James Donlan Vernon Steele
artist playwright american boss husband love interest cheeky madcap playful paris apartment london new york city office roommates jealousy romantic dilemma love triangle sex competition
A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
6.8/10
Drama
USA
1958
121 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Jeffrey Hunter James Gleason Dianne Foster Pat O'Brien Basil Rathbone Donald Crisp Edward Brophy John Carradine Willis Bouchey Basil Ruysdael
mayor political consultant politician nephew passionate spirited united states city city hall political campaign political corruption politics showdown aging competition underdog 1950s
Marshal Jake Wade aids outlaw Clint Hollister escape jail but Clint wants to know where Wade hid an old hold-up loot taken while both men were outlaws in the same gang.
6.1/10
Drama
USA
1933
72 Minutes
Irene Dunne Walter Huston Conrad Nagel Bruce Cabot Edna May Oliver Sam Hardy Mitchell Lewis Helen Eby-Rock Gertrude Michael J. Carrol Naish Sarah Padden
social worker army officer doctor judge suitor engaging moving profound striking prison havana new york state manhattan social activism prison adultery pregnancy blackmail sacrifice forbidden love
A prison reformer and a controversial judge fall in love and have a child out of wedlock.
6.3/10
Drama
USA
1934
68 Minutes
Jean Muir George Brent Verree Teasdale John Halliday Charles Starrett Russell Hopton Virginia Hammond Joan Wheeler Catherine Sheldon Harry Tyler Gladys Gale
actress friend daughter fiancé mother young woman spirited endearing moving new york city apartment party estate secret life mother/daughter relationship love triangle fame engagement class distinctions temptation
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
5.8/10
Western
USA
1931
91 Minutes
Gary Cooper Lili Damita Ernest Torrence Fred Kohler Tully Marshall Eugene Pallette Roy Stewart May Boley Jim Farley James Marcus
outlaw frenchwoman orphan trail guide settler native american thrilling spirited emotional frontier missouri jail rocky mountains california journey unusual romance helping others assumed identity schemes survival
A young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love.
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